Posts Tagged ‘First Nation Ontario newspaper’

PIKANGIKUM FIRST NATION FORCED TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY

PIKANGIKUM FIRST NATION FORCED TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY

For several days, there has been no supply of potable water or running water in any form. With an on-reserve population of 2,400 community members are now forced to gather water from the nearby lake, which is unsafe to drink. Parents may have no choice but to expose their children to contaminated [Read more]

Aboriginal Writers Panel To Explore Meaning of ‘The Land’

Aboriginal Writers Panel To Explore Meaning of ‘The Land’

WINNIPEG, MB – Tuesday, April 12, the  URBAN SHAMAN Comtemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery of Winnipeg will host a discussion, organized by Manitouwadge native Ryan Duplassie, titled ‘The Land‘. Panelists, which include Marilyn Dumont, Rosanna Deerchild, Jennifer Storm, Warren [Read more]

SOLUTIONS FOR FIRST NATIONS WATER PROBLEMS MOVING AT SNAIL’S PACE

SOLUTIONS FOR FIRST NATIONS WATER PROBLEMS MOVING AT SNAIL’S PACE

 Listen to Hughes Listen_to_hear_CarolHughes_H2Oa Listen_to_hear_CarolHughes_H2Ob OTTAWA, ON –Access to drinking water shouldn’t be a privilege for Canadians according to Carol Hughes. The MP for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing rose in Question Period to grill the government on the snail’s [Read more]

3rd Annual Community Governance and Economic Development Conference

3rd Annual Community Governance and Economic Development Conference

 THUNDER BAY, ON – The 3rd Annual Matawa First Nations Community Governance & Economic Development Conference 2011 begins tomorrow (March 1 & 2, 2011) at the Valhalla Inn.  This year’s theme is “Exploring Partnerships First Nation to First Nation for a Prosperous Future” [Read more]

Historic Treaty Symposium Begins Today

Historic Treaty Symposium Begins Today

NAN, CANADA AND LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY COME TOGETHER FOR HISTORIC TREATY SYMPOSIUM THUNDER BAY, ON – The Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN)/Canada Treaty Discussion Forum, in partnership with Lakehead University’s Aboriginal Initiatives, are hosting an historic Treaty Symposium.  The two-day event, [Read more]

Batchewana First Nation’s Third Annual Mid Winter Celebration!

Batchewana First Nation’s Third Annual Mid Winter Celebration!

BATCHEWANA FIRST NATION OF OJIBWAYS RANKIN RESERVE 15D, GOULAIS BAY RESERVE 15A, OBADJIWAN RESERVE 15E, WHITEFISH ISLAND 15   February 17, 2011 This coming weekend Batchewana First Nation (BFN) will be celebrating the third annual “Mid Winter Celebration”. This event brings our communities; [Read more]

PEACEFULL RESOLUTION TO PIC MOBERT INCIDENT

PEACEFULL RESOLUTION TO PIC MOBERT INCIDENT

  PEACEFULL RESOLUTION TO INCIDENT IN PIC MOBERT FIRST NATIONS MARATHON, ON – February 12, 2011, Anishinabek Police Service and Ontario Provincial Police responded to a report of a distraught male in a residence on Pic Mobert First Nation territory.  After evacuating several nearby residents [Read more]

NISHNAWBE-ASKI POLICE SERVICE MEMBERS APPOINTED AS RCMP SPECIAL CONSTABLES

NISHNAWBE-ASKI POLICE SERVICE MEMBERS APPOINTED AS RCMP SPECIAL CONSTABLES

FROM: Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Headquarters                                                                     Attawapiskat, ON – January 27, 2011, an agreement between the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) and the [Read more]

KWG MEDIVACS BLOCKADER

KWG MEDIVACS BLOCKADER

 February 1, 2011 Montreal, Canada –- KWG Resources Inc. (TSXV: KWG) yesterday (Mon.Jan.31.2011) had its helicopter evacuate a man injured in the campsite being installed beside the Koper Lake ice runway for a threatened blockade of exploration activities in the area. The man was given first aid [Read more]

NISHNAWBE-ASKI POLICE DRUG WARRANT YIELDS OXYS AND RITALIN

NISHNAWBE-ASKI POLICE DRUG WARRANT YIELDS OXYS AND RITALIN

January 31, 2011 FORT HOPE, ON – January 28, 2011, Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Drug Enforcement Unit members charged a woman and a youth after executing a search warrant issued under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act at a residence in the First Nation Community of Eabametoong. The [Read more]

UPDATE: FATAL HOUSE FIRE UNDER INVESTIGATION IN NIBINAMIK FIRST NATION

UPDATE: FATAL HOUSE FIRE UNDER INVESTIGATION IN NIBINAMIK FIRST NATION

Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Nibinamik Detachment                                                    January 26, 2011 Summer Beaver, ON – January 13, 2011, Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service began an investigation into a residential fire in the [Read more]

Métis Economic Development Symposium

Métis Economic Development Symposium

Métis Leaders, Federal and Provincial Ministers Map Out Strategy for Métis Economic Development January 21, 2011 VANCOUVER, BC  —The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, met January 19, 2011 [Read more]

FATAL HOUSE FIRE UNDER INVESTIGATION IN NIBINAMIK FIRST NATION

FATAL HOUSE FIRE UNDER INVESTIGATION IN NIBINAMIK FIRST NATION

FROM:           Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service ,Nibinamik Detachment                 UPDATE Summer Beaver, ON – January 13, 2011, Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service began an investigation into a residential fire in the First Nation community of Nibinamik that claimed the [Read more]

RING OF FIRE CHIEFS INVITED TO JOIN CANADA CHROME BOARD

RING OF FIRE CHIEFS INVITED TO JOIN CANADA CHROME BOARD

January 18, 2011 Montreal, Canada –  KWG Resources Inc. (TSXV: KWG) has extended invitations to the Chiefs of five First Nations in the Ring of Fire area to join the Board of Directors of its subsidiary Canada Chrome Corporation (“CCC”). “Late last year we advised Chiefs Elijah [Read more]

Mattawa First Nations News Release: Government & Industry Steam Ahead on Ring of Fire Developments, While First Nations are Left Waiting on the Platform

Mattawa First Nations News Release: Government & Industry Steam Ahead on Ring of Fire Developments, While First Nations are Left Waiting on the Platform

Thunder Bay, ON – With daily news releases being issued by Ontario, the mining industry and regional municipalities about developments in the Ring of Fire, the local Matawa First Nations seriously question why they have not been consulted about decisions that directly impact their people, [Read more]

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